What's the most reliable vehicle you've ever owned?

YellowSnow said:
For me it was "Old Blue", my 2006 4th Gen 4 Runner, SR5 4WD. Sold it back on 2023 to the little old lady down the street for her loser, tattoo artist son. It was a purple unicorn of sorts @flatus . Only had 103K miles at 17 years of age.

Only issues were a bad water pump at 55k under warranty and needed a new radiator at 17 years of age and 102K miles (pretty normal). Other than that just the usual fluid changes, brakes and spark plug maintenance.

I do think Dave Ramsey (TITTT) is full of shit on a lot of things and much of his advice only works if you live in cheap flyover country, but I like his take on cars and avoiding expense here. Gotta get 20 years out of these things @BleachedAnusDawg !!

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Have several. 1982 Chevy Step side Chevy, with a 1 ton rearend, Detroit lockers front and back, 456 gears front and back, 10 inch lift, steel rims caus of the power from the 350 HO motor and the gears would warp aluminum, granny gear, 350 high output motor with holly carb and headers, 44 Super swampers, Tulsa 12,000# wench, to name a few on that truck. Beast and tough as nails. A tank. I didn’t go in a clear cut and cut firewood and haul it back. I drove to it and drug it back to the road and cut it up. Like a Timberjack or skidder.



But it wasn’t as “reliable” or tough, as my 1993 Toyota 4wheel drive pickup. That sumbitch has been more than thru hell. It’s been there and back. My son killed it. Totaled it. Wasnt his fault. But it was about done anyway, was almost brand new when I bought it in ‘95. I put that fucker through the paces, every swamp from MS to CO you can imagine. And then some. It finally died, cosmetically. But not the engine. I just happened to find another ‘93 to take that engine out and put it in this truck…so the engine is in it that one now and lives on. I’m driving it now at my hunting camp. I’ll have to send pics later.
 
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DerekJohnson said:
About five years ago my car was running terribly and I took it in. They told me rodents had built a nest and eaten wires in the engine. The bill was over $5,000, but fortunately Geico covered all of it. I spray the engine every couple of months now with anti-rodent spray.
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We have that problem a lot around here. Rats getting in shit.

I have a M5700 Kubota 4 wheel drive tractor. Stays in the barn. I’m not actually “here” everyday. At my camp. Or second home in the rural country of MS as one would say, so to speak…

Went to fire it up a few years ago and nada. I’m like, WTF, over??

Got to looking and rats ate all the wires and actually built a nest under the hood. Loaded that big mfker up on one of my trailers,
hauled it to the dealer and they called me a few days later and quoted me some astronomically amount of dollars for a whole wiring harness. Thousands. Ummm, yeah, fk that. Hauled it back and we don’t need a key no more. It’s push button and starts. And runs like a champ.

Getting back to @YellowSnow thread about “tough”…Every Kubota we’ve ever had is tougher than a woodpeckers lips. It’s parked out back of my camp where I am right now and there’s no fkn doubt, if I need that bitch, whatever I have hooked to it, a bumper, axles, front end of something…or anything…it’s coming with me..don’t care what it is.

If I have to pull someone out, or another tractor, truck, don’t matter…I always tell them better tie that bitch to what you don’t want or the whole thing. Caus whatever it’s tied to, is coming out or apart.
 
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BleachedAnusDawg said:
This is why America is dying!

Also why the Camaro is extinct. Nobody wants to be cool and impractical anymore. It's a shame. Personally, we have the family rig that fits people and stuff, and we only need one of those kinds of cars for taking family trips, etc.

Also, anybody who has a third garage bay should be legally required to have a muscle car or sports car in the third bay.
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I would kill for a 3 car garage.
 
Honestly, my wife's 2007 Honda Pilot. Thing's a solidly built tank, runs well, handles well and now lives with my son in Montana where it's approaching 230k miles and still going strong. No major repairs, ever. Just regular oil changes, which I mostly do myself because Quickie Lube guys are universally retarded. Second to that was my '97 Trooper 5 speed manual V6 that my son's Boy Scout buddies called "Old School" and I got 180k miles out of before the clutch throwout bearing went bad. Another tank vehicle. Much heavier truck than you'd imagine.
 
Another…we bought a 2001 Toyota Avalon. In 2001. Had 3 miles on it. Practically brand new. Bought then because my wife was pregnant with our first child and we wanted something newer and safer than her Mitsubishi Eclipse she had been driving for years…had steel rods down the doors, good crash ratings, good ride(not like the newer ones) etc etc…. It finally died last year, transmission finally went out after slipping for a couple years. I did all the maintenance in that time.

I used it for a work car for a few years after we bought another one a coupe of years ago…24 years later and actually have a vid I took when it rolled past 400, 000 miles. It died, or transmission did, at 408,000 miles and was “totaled” to me at that point . Wasn’t worth replacing transmission. Raised two kids in that time, with all their pods in all those years, carried my family safely all that time and went wherever we wanted. Motor still didn’t smoke. Used a little oil. But that was it. Great car.
 
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SECDAWG said:
Another…we bought a 2001 Toyota Avalon. In 2001. Had 3 miles on it. Practically brand new. Bought then because my wife was pregnant with our first child and we wanted something newer and safer than her Mitsubishi Eclipse she had been driving for years…had steel rods down the doors, good crash ratings, good ride(not like the newer ones) etc etc…. It finally died last year, transmission finally went out after slipping for a couple years. I did all the maintenance in that time.

I used it for a work car for a few years after we bought another one a coupe of years ago…24 years later and actually have a vid I took when it rolled past 400, 000 miles. It died, or transmission did, at 408,000 miles and was “totaled” to me at that point . Wasn’t worth replacing transmission. Raised two kids in that time, with all their pods in all those years, carried my family safely all that time and went wherever we wanted. Motor still didn’t smoke. Used a little oil. But that was it. Great car.
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3 miles on it but it was "practically" brand new?
 
2004 Toyota Sequoia. Went well over 300 k and I barely took care of it.

Least reliable: 2007 BMW 328xi. Fun to drive. Cool looking. Nightmare to own.
 
PurpleThrobber said:
Mrs Throbber had a 328xi. Worked fine when we lived in town but once we moved to the Compound, it couldn’t handle the steep and deep. Japs > Krauts when it comes to snow.
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Uhh, are we comparing low slung sport sedans to large crossover / suv's for snow superiority?

Just buy some good snow tires. Problems solved for almost any vehicle.
 
BleachedAnusDawg said:
Uhh, are we comparing low slung sport sedans to large crossover / suv's for snow superiority?

Just buy some good snow tires. Problems solved for almost any vehicle.
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Bruh - I live on a mile long private mountain road to the Compound.

Studs on truck/SUV or plummet to one’s death on our road. Worse in early spring with runoff during day, freezing at night.

The Beamer was parked at the bottom of the hill multiple tims. The Mazda CX9 was best. Highlanders in second. Plow truck is a Nissan. Murican truck struggles unless there’s a bunch of weight in the back. Steep and deep.
 
PurpleThrobber said:
Bruh - I live on a mile long private mountain road to the Compound.

Studs on truck/SUV or plummet to one’s death on our road.

The Beamer was parked at the bottom of the hill multiple tims.
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I get that a Bimmer sedan wouldn't work for your situation, but it's not supposed to considering what your needs are. I wouldn't ascribe that to the Japanese carmaker being better at building a vehicle for the snow, though.
 
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